Ohio Vintage Coal Co. had (3) members from the group that decided that a Mancha Trammer needed to be saved. Originally these units were never utilized in Anthracite until much later when a group of miners decided to incorporate them into Anthracite Southern Field coal mines.

A trammer is the SMALLEST built storage battery mine locmotive weighing a total of 1-1/2 tons.

FUN FACTThe original purpose of the trammer is to replace a hand trammer. A good strong man weighing 175lbs will exert 20-25lbs push parellel to the track. He would rarely turn out 25,000 net ton feet on an 8 hour shift.

Tha Mancha trammer will do the work of 8-12 strong men & that is where the name Mancha little trammer came from.

This trammer was built by Mancha / Goodman & was capable of having the end motorman compartment folded up to be lowered in deep hard rock mines (mostly Gold, Silver, Copper & Nickel).

Joined: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:34 pmPosts: 6906Location: Within 60 Miles of the Northern Anthracite Field

Nice work on that battery box, we have a plasma cutter at work and its what we used on our battery box top pannels. fun tool! but yea she is lookin good. last time we saw that thing we didnt think it needed that much work. looks like you boys have you work cut out for you for the next.......what..... week? but yea lookin good!

Well we made some phone calls today on an experiment on the new fabricated battery box.

We are going to have a RHINO COATING rubber liner sprayed inside. We think it will be easier to clean & won't corrode the box out from the batteries. It will also keep the batteries from sliding around. It should also quiet the box from banging around too.

I have never seen or heard of this done on a mining battery box so it should be cool if it works correct.

I have thoroughly tested this product in my super duty truck & I can say hands down the best liner we have ever had

Yeah we have it in ours too.. can't beat it. That should work out pretty awesome. Do you have to take it to a shop for the application? Our truck already had it in it. I wonder what the rhino guys will think of that!

Did you guys know that Rhino lining was originally developed for underground Diamond mines. The mines needed a heavy duty coating to reduce wear on buckets & ore cars. The rubberized coating was developed & was successful then latter adapted to pick-up truck bed liners. This information was provided to us by our local distributor of this product.

The box is actually a type "B" Mancha trammer battery box. It is the largest of the (3) style boxes (A-C) to choose from & we picked this to accomodate equipment batteries so everything fits no problem.

Ray had a basic print that we converted to autocad which helped us obtain the missing data. The autocad then also helped us generate our CNC files for the plasma cutting.

Greg, actually with using this technology we are able to fill the gaps in. We can take a sales brochure & turn it into an engineered drawing. The below end view of the battery box only provides us with only three dimensions.

--Now that leaves us with what diameter are the battery vent holes?

--What are the angles of the battery lids?

--What spacing are the vent holes?

--Etc, Etc

CAD & CNC technology has been a life saver for us on many of our restoration projects. It helps to eliminate the educated GUESSES

Since the factory is out-of-business we are now able to generate our own engineered drawing to create a "NEW" factory spec box.

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